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test results of various groups and activists from Spain asking to delete the sex of the DNI

SENTENCE Kim Perez

Following the case of Australian Norrie May-Welby, the first citizen who is not a man or woman, various groups seek the removal of gender identity, as was done with religion or marital status

MARGA Tojo SANTIAGO / Transexual Sent to Digital Journal. Neither man nor woman, Australian Norrie May-Welby, 48, officially became a citizen last week in no particular genre. Male Born and operated to achieve a female body, his reassignment was not really, since May-Welby sexual identification does not share any of the two regulated. His case could be the tip of the iceberg of reality buried and largely unknown historically, encompassed, usually in the medical field of hermaphroditism and treated according to clinical parameters quirúrxicos as a condition of universal cultural intelligibility.

The neutrality May-Welby became a milestone for the cause and "hope" for people who are in that situation, any number, because statistics are lacking, although in the strict domain of the so-called hermaforditas, molecular biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling of Brown University (Rhode Island), it is estimated that 1 "7% of the population. Thus, various groups and activists claim that the English government adopted a measure that would recognize" a basic right "of intersex people, a demand that requires the completion percentages. the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, Dude, and the specific request made in two ways: first, to Brussels through the ILGA ( The International Lesbian and Gay Association), the second, the central government, which require the involvement of the National Statistics Institute (INE) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, "and that the associations lack the mechanisms and capacities to carry out and these institutions are competent in this area," says the president of Galicia colleague and secretary general of the state platform, Rafael Moral , who says, "Our group is not currently aware of any cases in the community"

What they ask is not the creation of a third sex, but to delete the reference, not included in the DNI, as they do religion or marital status. He explained Galicia Hoxe the president of the Association of Gender Identity Andalusia, Kim Perez, pictured right, which was also the first transsexual in the State to stand as candidates in municipal elections council, in this case, Granada and United Left. The identity card is for the transsexual community, an important part of their battle, won in Spain in March 2007 when Congress arpobó the law that allowed him to change the name and sex without going under the knife. And they will also fight for the rights of the intersexed: "Today there is no point the box man and woman in the document, because both share the same rights as legally equal," he says.

Australia, four years of recognized androgyny
Internationally, the exception, for almost four years, is found in Australia, whose National Statistics Office since 2006 recognizes the right of citizens to be registered as intersex. This was assisted by Chris Sommers, spokesman for the International Association of Intersex, he now sees his victory in Norrie May-Welby.

But if there is a state that can add to the demand that is English. For Kim Perez Spain is at the absolute cutting edge and considered "beautiful" to discussing these issues as normal in society today, although the law is, by far, "limited." "Ignorance audience is huge, but it is something that has existed since the beginning of history, he adds. There was always intersex births, as is always true that these individuals are covered, hidden, because the company only offers two models and the requirement is also to be very male and very female. "So valued as" teaching "the case for Australia and that this be called" neutral, if better understood, "as a first step of understanding," out of the closet. In art, novels like

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides Pulitzer Prize and films like the Argentina XXY Lucía Puenzo or the recent Last Summer the Boyita , Julia Solomonoff, or the English My dear Miss Jaime de Armiñán, small steps have been scaled to the disclosure of the collective. Intersex

But, as explained Perez has more dimensions than physical: "We all know that from time to time children are born intersex, which is called hermaphroditism, intersexuality but there is also brain, not visible, it detects only the person when they grow, children, for example, felt no correspondence to their sex and that resulted in the need for women, but eventually find that it can not identify with them. It is a journey muy solitario, igual que el de la transexualidad, que a veces, en el fondo, es una intersexualidad". ¿Y para las mujeres y los hombres transexuales que se sientan bien en su nuevo género reasignado? "Perfecto", responde, "lo importante es que cada uno encuentre su identidad".

QUE HACER? Consejos para padres de la Organización Internacional Intersexual

Dentro de la muy escasa información que circula sobre el tema de la intersexualidad, la Organización Internacional Intersexual ofrece en su web Intersexualite.org los materiales más relevantes, muchos de cariz personal. En concreto, destaca el apartado de consejos para los padres que tengan un hijo intersexual. "Cuando a baby is born, "they write first thing we do is identify the sex. But when it is not easy to identify as a boy or girl, it is possible to get the sex of the child corresponds to the binary logic, which leads us to conclude erroneously that everyone is either male or female. Intersex refers not only to the body of the child, but also their own sense of self and how you feel inside. (...) Moreover, the sexual identity of an individual is a fundamental part of their holistic identity. Focusing exclusively on the body as the main factor to determine the identity of a person reduces the individual to a limited number of body parts and obvious completely the perception that the individual has of his own body and the person living in that head. As parents, it is important to understand that although we are asked to choose the sex of our / her child, what we choose may not be the one he / she chooses. (...) Are they really needed the surgeries that claim to change the sex of our children and are often irreversible? Questions and more questions, but this is all part of being a parent of an intersex child. That is why it is necessary to understand DECIC intersex time before making any decision. Intersex is not a disease. Yet we must not forget that may have serious health problems involved as in any child and may be needed certain treatments and operations. "

JUDITH BUTLER Reflections on corrective surgery

The term hermaphrodite is derived from Greek mythology, which tells how the relationship of Hermes and Aphrodite was born strange being who had xenitales male and female body. Judith Butler, author of Undoing Gender philosophers is one of the most inquired into the matter. "Deviating from the norm of gender is to produce such an aberration that regulatory power (medical , psychiatric and legal, to name a few) can explode quickly to shore justification of its own regulatory zeal, "writes the author continued. The question, however, remains: what are the standard deviations of more than an excuse or justification for the continued authority of the rule? The issue of "correction" surgery for children with hermaphroditism is a good example. Here the argument is that children born with irregular primary sex characteristics should be "corrected" to adapt, feel better, achieve normality. Corrective surgery is sometimes performed with the support of parents and in the name of standardization, and physical and psychological costs of the surgery turned out to be huge for people they were subjected, as it were, the standard knife. The ideality of the general morphology is literally marked in the flesh. "



SENTENCE Kim Perez